Writer and satirist Konstantin Kisin recently explained in an interview how progressive indoctrination in education is turning people against civilization, particularly in the West.
Kisin uses examples in England that can easily be applied to the United States as well, suggesting that if you spend years teaching people to hate their country, you shouldn’t be surprised if that’s what ends up happening.
The video is going viral and is worth watching.
Real Clear Politics provides a partial transcript:
KONSTANTIN KISIN: You spent 60 years teaching your children to hate your own civilization. Why are you surprised that they hate your civilization? I’m sorry, but that’s what happened. By the way, it’s not just hate. It’s hard to teach people to hate, it’s much easier to simply lie about the story.
In the United Kingdom, for example, in England, the Church of England has just approved billions of pounds in reparations because they talk endlessly about slavery. The narrative around slavery seems to be: “There was no such thing as slavery, then the British Empire came along and invented slavery, and then woke people came along and ended the British Empire.” When, of course, we all know that slaves were probably the first commodity traded by humans, this never had anything to do with race, it was just a fact that conquered people were subjugated by others and used as labor , and they would be exchanged.
Native Americans held slaves, as have everyone else throughout history. The British Empire practiced slavery just like everyone else. Thanks to their superior technology, they were able to move slaves across the ocean. And then the English put an end to slavery, not only within the borders of their kingdom, but also spent a huge amount of blood and treasure to end the transatlantic slave trade, which was much worse, lasted longer, it had a higher mortality rate, the men were all castrated, the women were all enslaved: they forced the slave trade to end at a dramatic diplomatic, military and monetary cost.
And so, this idea that we have to eternally apologize for the sins of the past seems ridiculous to me. Does that mean we shouldn’t recognize that those things were bad? of course, learn from them. But it seems very strange…
Watch it all below:
“It’s hard to teach hate. It’s easier to lie about history.” – @KonstantinKisin dismantles the established narrative of slavery. pic.twitter.com/Sbi7c1a8La
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) March 13, 2024
This is the kind of thinking that could lead to real, meaningful reform in education.